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Yellowstarstruck Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Verb?

Hi! Is the underlined a verb? Thanks, Fulvio

1. We have been fighting. (Present Perfect Continuous)

2. There has been fighting. (Present Perfect Continuous)

  

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yellowstarstruck Is the underlined a verb? Yes.

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yellowstarstruckIs the underlined a verb?

Yes.

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yellowstarstruckIs the underlined a verb?

It's a verb, but it has a different function than it does in the first sentence.

In sentence 2 it's a gerund, the (displaced) subject of the sentence. It is not considered part of the verb phrase itself, so the tense is simply the perfect tense, not the perfect continuous tense.

There | is | fighting &

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